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From: Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:15:22 -0400
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:08:25 -0600, lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> wrote:

>On 2024-07-26 02:51, Antonio Marques wrote:
>> Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:41:13 -0700, HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/22/2024 9:40 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>>>> PTD was a regular in sci.lang via Googlegroups, and suddenly jumped
>>>>> into aue as a result of something that was crossposted there.
>>>>
>>>> When was that?
>>>
>>> I can't remember exactly, but probably about 15-20 years ago.
>>>
>>>>> The instance I remember most was when he denied that the town of El
>>>>> Paso, Illinois, existed, and continued to deny its existence no matter
>>>>> what evidence was put before him.
>>>
>>>> (thanks... i'll look that up)
>>>
>>>> The instance I remember most was when he (PTD) opined that Most
>>>> Chinese words consisted of 2 Chinese characters.
>>>>
>>>> I and another person gave examples
>>>> ("Wo ai ni",
>>>> Wood, Water, sky, river, person, paper, ...
>>>> Most basic words and verbs are 1-character)
>>>>
>>>> but that was when  PTD  became  [quintessentially PTD].
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i couldn't quite tell
>>>> 1. if he was  convinced of some fact, info, or assertion, or
>>>> 2. if he was  just being like a 5 year old boy.
>> 
>> 3. He was right (as usual), as in this specific case. That some of the core
>> vocabulary is the shortest applies to almost any language and as such is
>> not relevant to the discussion.
>> 
>>> In his own field he had some useful information, but outside his field
>>> he could be very dogmatic about things that he simply got wrong.
>>>
>> 
>> People desperately tried to jump on every unqualified statement of his for
>> some interpretation that would make him 'wrong'.
>
>When he did things like claiming that he never said something, and the 
>proof of his having said it was obvious, especially so when what he said 
>was actually quoted in his posting denying it, there was no 
>'desperately' involved.

I think "People jumped in frustrated by PTD's misstatements..." better
described the reaction to PTD's many unqualified statements.